The New American-Israeli Relationship: Crisis or Opportunity?

By CONGREGATION OHR SHALOM - SUMMIT JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER

March 25, 2017 at 9:40 AM

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Congregation Ohr Shalom-Summit JCC invites the public to AN EVENING WITH YOSSI KLEIN HALEVI on Wednesday, March 29th at 7:15 pm. Yossi Klein Halevi, a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem will present: “THE NEW AMERICAN ISRAELI RELATIONSHIP: CRISIS OR OPPORTUNITY?” He will discuss the new administration and how American Israel relations will be affected. The American-born Israeli author, journalist and speaker co-directs the Shalom Hartman Institute’s Muslim Leadership Initiative and presents seminars focusing on Arab-Israel relations. Yossi has been active in Middle East reconciliation work, and serves as chairman of Open House, an Arab Israeli-Jewish Israeli center in the town of Ramle, near Tel Aviv.

His most recent book Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation, won the Jewish Book of the Year Award for the Jewish Book Council. Halevi has published columns and op-ed pieces in the Jerusalem Post, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times and the Washington Post. He is the Israel correspondent and a contributing editor of The New Republic. Halevi also lectures on American and Canadian college campuses about Israeli politics and culture. In 2013 he was a visiting professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary.

Don't miss this opportunity to hear this noted scholar! Congregation Ohr Shalom-Summit JCC is located at 67 kent Place Blvd. in Summit. Admission to the program is $18 per person. RSVP is preferred by mailing a check or by email to admin@summitjcc.org. For additional information, please call the office at 908-273-8130 or visit our website at www.summitjcc.org.

This program is sponsored by Ruth and Jay Toor and Debra and Robert Rosenbaum.

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